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"Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new foreword by the author and a message that is as relevant today as when it was first published." "Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than 4 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 - originally published in 1953 - remains his most acclaimed work." "Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at...
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"Guy Montag é um bombeiro. Dele emprego consiste em destruir livros proibidos e as casas onde esses livros estão escondidos. Ele nunca questiona a destruição causada, e no final do dia regressa para a sua vida apática com a esposa, Mildred, que passa o dia imersa na sua televisão. Um dia, Montag conhece a sua excêntrica vizinha Clarisse e é como se um sopro de vida o despertasse para o mundo. Ela apresenta-o a um passado onde as pessoas viviam...
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Overlook Press
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2002.
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English
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The acclaimed author of Bleeding London spins a yarn of academia, lunacy, and the blurry lines between them in this novel.
It all starts at Cambridge University, where Dr. John Bentley throws his book burning parties-"a little active, symbolic literary criticism"-in which guests are invited to state their grudges against their least favorite books, and then toss them into a fire. It is at one such party that the brilliant but sheepish Gregory Collins...
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Brilliance Audio
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[2016]
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English
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"THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES: Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor--of crystal pillars and fossil seas--where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn--first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered by it,...
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